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Electronic cigs...

Given the sprot (which I agree with completely) I thought I would just mention that I have started reviewing the Commons images for this category. I'm finding a number of single account offerings which look a little suspicious to me - if there is anything cross wiki I'll let folk know. Cheers --Herby 08:39, 25 June 2012 (UTC)

Yeah, it's likely it's like the pr0n situation: folks quickly realize that if they license correctly they can give us a glut of photos of a product. Steven Walling • talk 23:51, 25 June 2012 (UTC)

Non-free rationale for File:Vvoice august cover.jpg

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Rock on

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Thanks!

Thanks for participating in my RFA! I appreciate your support. Zagalejo^^^ 05:59, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

Ping

Hi Steven, I just wanted to make sure that you saw this. You can reply to the list or ping me on my talk page. If you would prefer to use private email that's ok too. I feel that we support similar goals here, and I am sure other editors do as well. The questions are about implementation, and I am cautiously optimistic that we in the community can arrive at a consensus on one form or another of implementation. Pine 09:05, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

WikiProject Editor Retention: You are the "Research and data analysis" team lead

Hi Steven, I went ahead and created project teams for each of the general editor retention areas people have expressed an interest to work in. Please review the team lists here: Misplaced Pages:WikiProject_Editor_Retention#Project_teams. I have assigned you as the leader of the "Research and data analysis" team. Assuming you are interested in taking on this role, please notify the members of your team, and verify each editor is interested in being on the team. I expect that there might be some shuffling around of roles and teams at first, but once the teams are settled, I will co-ordinate with the teams leads to put together goals and a basic project plan to make sure that the project as a whole is successful and makes a measurable, positive difference for Misplaced Pages. Thank you for for your involvement... Zad68 19:42, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

July 2012 Study of authors of health-related Misplaced Pages pages

Dear Author/Steven Walling My name is Nuša Farič and I am a Health Psychology MSc student at University College London (UCL). I am currently running a quantitative study entitled Who edits health-related Misplaced Pages pages and why? I am interested in the editorial experience of people who edit health-related Misplaced Pages pages. I am interested to learn more about the authors of health-related pages on Misplaced Pages and what motivations they have for doing so. I am currently contacting the authors of randomly selected articles and I noticed that someone at this address recently edited an article on Artificial Insemination. I would like to ask you a few questions about you and your experience of editing the above mentioned article and or other health-related articles. If you would like more information about the project, please visit my user page (http://commons.wikimedia.org/User:Hydra_Rain) and if interested, please reply via my talk page or e-mail me on nusa.faric.11@ucl.ac.uk. Also, others interested in the study may contact me! If I do not hear back from you I will not contact this account again. Thank you very much in advance. Hydra Rain (talk) 12:17, 14 July 2012 (UTC)

Wikimania Barnstar

	Wikimania Barnstar
	It was great to meet you at Wikimania 2012! --evrik  14:21, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

Nomination of EthicalWiki for deletion

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Wikimania

I was superexcited to meet you in D.C., and you are even more dashing in person than you are in your photos. The guy who does nothing but wake up and fix comma splices is my hero, too. --David Shankbone 02:28, 25 July 2012 (UTC)

Aw, shucks. Thanks man. Next time I am in the NYC area we should get a drink! Steven Walling • talk 07:05, 25 July 2012 (UTC)

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The Tea Leaf - Issue Five

Hi! Welcome to the fifth edition of The Tea Leaf, the official newsletter of the Teahouse!

• Guest activity increased in July. Questions are up from an average of 36 per week in June to 43 per week in July, and guest profile creation has also increased. This is likely a result of the automatic invite experiments we started near the end of month, which seeks to lessen the burden on hosts and other volunteers who manually invite editors. During the last week of July, questions doubled in the Teahouse! (But don't let that deter you from inviting editors to the Teahouse, please, there are still lots of new editors who haven't found Teahouse yet.)
• More Teahouse hosts than ever. We had 12 new hosts sign up to participate at the Teahouse! We now have 35 hosts volunteering at the Teahouse. Feel free to stop by and see them all here.
• Phase two update: Host sprint. In August, the Teahouse team plans to improve the host experience by developing a simpler new-host creation process, a better way of surfacing active hosts, and a host lounge renovation. Take a look at the plan and weigh in here.
• New Teahouse guest barnstar is awarded to first recipient: Charlie Inks. Using the Teahouse barnstar designed by Heatherawalls, hosts hajatvrc and Ryan Vesey created the new Teahouse Guest Barnstar. The first recipient is Charlie Inks, for her boldness in asking questions at the Teahouse. Check out the award in action here.
• Teahouse was a hot topic at Wikimania! The Teahouse was a hot topic at Wikimania this past month, where editor retention and interface design was heavily discussed. Sarah and Jonathan presented the Teahouse during the Wikimedia Fellowships panel. Slides can be viewed here. A lunch was also held at Wikimania for Teahouse hosts.

As always, thanks for supporting the Teahouse project! Stop by and visit us today!

You are receiving The Tea Leaf after expressing interest or participating in the Teahouse! To remove yourself from receiving future newsletters, please remove your username here. Sarah (talk) 08:38, 4 August 2012 (UTC)

Misuse of Talk page while being blocked

Please check out the insulting comments by this blocked user. --DBigXray 07:07, 10 August 2012 (UTC)